Eldora Herald-Ledger

The paper as it's structured today was formed in 1931 when The Eldora Herald acquired the rival Hardin County Ledger and they merged to form the Eldora Herald-Ledger.

The paper was established shortly after Eldora lost its prior paper, the Hardin County Sentinel, to the city of Iowa Falls, Iowa; as the publisher of the Sentinel, M. C. Woodruff, had lost faith in the future prospects of Eldora due to its then lack of railroad transportation.

In c. 1888, McBride and Preston sold The Eldora Ledger to the Methodist minister and politician John Dolph; a man who served as Hardin County's representative in the Iowa General Assembly while operating the paper.

Campbell in 1893, who in turn sold the paper to Charles and William H. Sheakley in 1894.

[2] Soon after, Kneedler renamed the paper the Hardin County Ledger; and it was first published under that name on January 25, 1912.